Hack Your Nike Shoes Into Wii Controllers

The Wii balance board has always been one of the stranger attachments for your system, but take it apart and stick it in a pair of Nikes, and you'll have a much cooler controller for Wii Fit and the like.

Nick Marsh hacked his Nike shoes to create these nifty Wii controllers as part of the Nike78 Project, where Nike asked 78 artists to get creative with their shoes. What makes the hack all the more interesting is that it actually changes how you interact with your games, providing a much different experience than you'd otherwise have with store-bought controllers.

While the video's entertaining and demonstrates the functionality, Nick's Nike78 page hosts a bunch of detailed pictures showing you where all the parts go, which is a bit more useful if you feel like attempting this sort of thing yourself.

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